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An experiment by Prashant Matta
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In Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7 you: level up and plan battles, give orders in real time

1,229 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

Show same-series games?

6 hidden: Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 3, Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 6 and 4 more

Your party Games like Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7

Keeps what you do. Adds something new.

  1. Field of Glory II: Medieval

    • Strategy
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: fight, medieval times

    Why you’d like it: Like planning battles in Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7, but here turn-based tactics put you in command of medieval European armies.

    See on Steam: Field of Glory II: Medieval (opens in a new tab)

  2. Yggdra Union

    • Role-playing
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: role-play Japanese-style, a fantasy world

    Why you’d like it: Like planning battles in Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7, but here you team allies up for attacks in a tactics RPG.

    See on Steam: Yggdra Union (opens in a new tab)

  3. Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive

    • Strategy
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: move on hexes, World War II

    Why you’d like it: Planning battles ahead carries over, but here you command battalions on a hex map through the Ardennes campaign of 1944.

    See on Steam: Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive (opens in a new tab)

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  1. Three Kingdoms Mushouden

    • Strategy
    • Solo
    • Mixed reviews
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: level up and move squads, an open world

    Why you’d like it: Like Heroes of the Three Kingdoms 7, this is set in the Three Kingdoms era, but you can play an original character.

    See on Steam: Three Kingdoms Mushouden (opens in a new tab)

  2. Three Kingdoms 2019 阿达三国志2019 横版

    • Strategy
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Free to play
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: fight, war

    See on Steam: Three Kingdoms 2019 阿达三国志2019 横版 (opens in a new tab)

  3. Master of Command

    • Strategy
    • Solo
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: give orders in real time

    New here: direct squads live, war

    See on Steam: Master of Command (opens in a new tab)

  4. Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes

    • Strategy
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: give orders in real time

    New here: cut through crowds, a fantasy world

    See on Steam: Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes (opens in a new tab)

  5. 眼中的世界 - Conviction -

    • Strategy
    • Solo
    • Less played
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: fight in turns, an anime look

    See on Steam: 眼中的世界 - Conviction - (opens in a new tab)

  6. Combat Mission Shock Force 2

    • Strategy
    • Solo or multiplayer
    • Less played
    • Doesn’t keep: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: give orders in real time

    New here: drive tanks, history that went differently

    See on Steam: Combat Mission Shock Force 2 (opens in a new tab)

  7. Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms

    • Strategy
    • Solo
    • Early access
    • Keeps: level up and plan battles
    • Keeps: plan ahead

    New here: fight and level up, war

    See on Steam: Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms (opens in a new tab)

Played one of these? See what to play after it: Three Kingdoms MushoudenMaster of CommandKingdom Under Fire: HeroesCombat Mission Shock Force 2Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms

AI wrote the “Why you’d like it” lines, and a second AI pass checked them against each game’s store page. They can be wrong, so check the store page before you buy.

How this list was made

1,229 of 20,285 games share what you do. These 10 fit best.

What gets in

A game is what you do in it, so a pick has to share what players say you do most. If fewer than ten games earn a place, the list stays short.

Games from the same series start hidden, and the next best fits take their places. Choose Yes to show them in their places on the list.

Lists use the tags Steam players vote on, plus each game’s Steam store page.

Less played means far fewer Steam reviews than the game you finished. Mixed reviews means 60 to 69% of its Steam reviews are positive.

What only changes the order

A shared setting, look or popularity can move a game up or down, but it can’t put a game on the list by itself. Being set in space, for example, isn’t enough: a pick has to keep something you do.

What isn’t known

No players have tested this. Newer and smaller games have less data.

Privacy

To learn whether this works, the page records how it’s used. This is all of it.

What’s recorded

Searches

The text you type is never sent to Next Up. If it matches a game Next Up knows but has no list for, only that game’s number is recorded. If it matches nothing, only the fact that it matched nothing is recorded, with a rough length such as 4 to 6 characters.

Suggestions show a small image of each game, loaded straight from Steam’s image servers. So while you type, Steam sees which games’ images your browser asks for, though not the text itself.

The random ID

Your browser keeps a random ID for up to 6 months after your last visit, so repeat visits can be counted. It’s created when the first batch of this record goes out, which is your first action or the first time you leave or switch away from the page, whichever comes first. It’s stored in this browser, not in a cookie.

The ID is kept like this only in the US, Canada outside Quebec, Australia and New Zealand. Everywhere else, nothing is stored for it: the ID lasts only until you close or reload the tab, so a return visit counts as a new one. That’s decided from the location Cloudflare reports for your connection, so a VPN can change it. If it reports no country, or Canada with no region, nothing is stored either.

From your connection

The record keeps your country and region, device type, operating system and browser family, language, and the kind of site you came from. Your IP address, city and network aren’t stored, and this recording uses no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie of its own.

Who else sees a visit

Cloudflare hosts the page and this data, and handles your connection like any web host. Store links and Steam searches go to Steam only if you click them, and Steam then sees that visit.

Game art loads straight from Steam’s image servers (shared.akamai.steamstatic.com and shared.fastly.steamstatic.com): on the first screen’s game tiles as soon as it opens, in search suggestions as you type, and on each list. So your browser contacts Steam for those images, and Steam sees that connection and which games’ images were asked for.

Google Analytics is blocked on this page by its security policy, but the rest of pmatta.design uses it.

AI-written lines

The “Why you’d like it” lines on cards were written by AI ahead of time and checked by a second AI pass. No AI runs while you browse.

How long it’s kept

Up to 13 months.

Turn counting off

Turning it off stops this browser sending anything and removes the ID. The choice is kept in this browser, so clearing site data turns counting back on, and so can a browser that clears such data by itself, as Safari can after 7 days without a visit. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, counting is already off, and the ID is removed. What was sent before you turned it off is kept for up to 13 months, like the rest.

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